LOUISE KEAN
Boyfriend in a Dress
For Mum & Dad
I used to be Snow White … then I drifted
MAE WEST
It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak, and another to hear
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Contents
What Charlie Has to Say for Himself
One Step Forward or Two Steps Back?
‘I’m sorry, what?’
‘We should just know zat ze ghost is zere, we shouldn’t be able to see it! ’Ave it taken out of ze script. Get somebody else to do it. Sack ’im first.’
You can barely even make out the Spanish accent now, although when my boss first came to this country two years ago, when he first took the job as the head of television development, it was actually impossible to understand three out of four words he said. He told me six months ago, through a toothy Spanish smile, that he swore a lot in those early days, at all of the producers and scriptwriters he worked